The U.S. State Department deplored an act of vandalism at a synagogue in Russia and urged Russian leaders to speak out against anti-Semitism and extremism. Wednesday’s comment came after vandals threw Torahs and prayer books on the floor and scrawled swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti on the walls during a rampage earlier this week in the Novosibirsk synagogue in southern Siberia.
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